Words fail

Rating: 2/10 (11 October 2014)

Finding words to describe the awfulness of this movie is not easy but let's give it a shot: awful, absurd, childish, shallow, superficial, infantile, predictable, silly macho-man fantasy, for macho-man wanna-bes to live out their macho-man fantasies for things they can't accomplish in real life complete with phoney heroics, and stereotypes galore. Women are allocated one tear; men, none. It makes Fast and Furious look like Shakespeare. The usual Hollywood "blockbuster", no thinking required: too much unintelligible, contrived blabbering, cardboard cartoon characters, long on eye candy; short on unimportant things like plot and character development. Those who like bright flashing lights, explosions, bang bang, woosh woosh, boom boom cartoons will love it. Two stars for the CGI. Those who prefer something within a few light years of reality land should look elsewhere.